鷗

See also: 鴎 and 鸥

鷗	U+9DD7, 鷗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9DD7

← 鷖
[U+9DD6]

CJK Unified Ideographs

鷘 →
[U+9DD8]

Translingual

Traditional	鷗
Shinjitai (extended)	鴎
Simplified	鸥

Han character

鷗 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+11, 22 strokes, cangjie input 尸口竹日火 (SRHAF), four-corner 7772₇, composition ⿰區鳥)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1499, character 7
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47268
Dae Jaweon: page 2029, character 4
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4656, character 5
Unihan data for U+9DD7

Chinese

trad.		鷗
simp.		鸥
alternative forms		䳼

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鷗
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (區) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
摳	kʰoː, kʰo
彄	*kʰoː
剾	kʰoː, qoː
謳	*qoː
歐	qoː, qoːʔ
區	qoː, kʰo
鷗	*qoː
甌	*qoː
漚	qoː, qoːs
瞘	*qoː
嘔	qoː, qoːʔ
櫙	*qoː
膒	*qoː
蓲	qoː, kʰu, qo, qos
醧	qoː, qas
鏂	*qoː
毆	*qoːʔ
塸	*qoːʔ
貙	*kʰl'o
樞	*kʰjo
驅	kʰo, kʰos
軀	*kʰo
嶇	*kʰo
鰸	*kʰo
敺	*kʰo
傴	*qoʔ
嫗	*qos
饇	*qos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qoː): phonetic 區 (OC *qoː, *kʰo) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).

Etymology

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ōu (ou¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄡ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): au¹

(Taishan, Wiktionary): eu^1*
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): êu¹
Eastern Min (BUC): ĕu
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): au / o͘ / o / io

(Teochew, Peng'im): ao¹ / ou¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹eu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ōu
  - Zhuyin: ㄡ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ou
  - Wade–Giles: ou¹
  - Yale: ōu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ou
  - Palladius: оу (ou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: au¹
  - Yale: āu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: au¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: eo¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐu̯⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: eu^1*
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /eu³³⁻³³⁵/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: êu¹
  - Sinological IPA: /eu⁴⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ĕu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɛu⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: au
  - Tâi-lô: au
  - Phofsit Daibuun: aw
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /au⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /au³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Penang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘
  - Tâi-lô: oo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: of
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɔ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Penang): /ɔ³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
  - Tâi-lô: o
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oy
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /o³³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: io
  - Tâi-lô: io
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ioy
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɤ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /io⁴⁴/

Note:

au - vernacular;
o͘/o/io - literary.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: ao¹ / ou¹
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: au / ou
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /au³³/, /ou³³/

Note: ou1 - used in place names.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹eu
  - MiniDict: eu^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹eu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɤ⁵³/

Middle Chinese: 'uw

Rime
Character	鷗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏侯切
Baxter	'uw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔəu/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔəu/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəw/
Li Rong	/ʔu/
Wang Li	/əu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ōu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	au¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*qoː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鷗
Reading #	1/1
No.	10585
Phonetic component	區
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	謳
Old Chinese	/*qoː/

Definitions

鷗

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Compounds

沙鷗 / 沙鸥 (shā'ōu)
海鷗 / 海鸥 (hǎi'ōu)
燕鷗 / 燕鸥
白鷗 / 白鸥
眠鷗宿鷺 / 眠鸥宿鹭
鷗波 / 鸥波
鷗盟 / 鸥盟
鷗邊 / 鸥边
鷗鳥忘機 / 鸥鸟忘机
鷗鴉 / 鸥鸦
鷗鷺忘機 / 鸥鹭忘机

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	鴎
Print standard	鷗

Kanji

鷗

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 鴎)

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Readings

Go-on: う (u)
Kan-on: おう (ō)
Kun: かもめ (kamome, 鷗)
Nanori: かもめ (kamome)

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 鷗 – see the following entry.

【鴎】H	[kanji] hyōgai kanji [kanji] Extended shinjitai form of 鷗: seagull Kanji reading: う, おう, かもめ

(This term, 鷗, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

鷗 (eum 구 (gu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

鷗: Hán Nôm readings: âu

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